Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1887-09-10
NEWS NOTES.

Forty liberal members of parliament have
resolved TO support the Irish National league
I Twenty other liberal members have written
letters lndorsing the resolution
The rurnor of John Ruslln's Insanity has
| been revived at London. The old man is said
to be travelling but keeps his whereabouts
concealed from his friends.
A well on the Martin farm, near Oil City,
Pennsylvania, which was struck June %
last, has yielded TO date $4,000 barrels, of
OIL, netting the owner a prOnt OF S5o,DOJ.
The well is still flowing at the rate of fifty
barrels an hour.
The Russian government is reported to
have warned the Pan-Slavists against inyit-
ing General Boulanger to visit Moscow.
Luther A. Furlong, who was arrested by
the sheriff of Lake county, Michigan, under
the impression that he was McGarigle, has
sued that official for $1,000 damages.
The remains of a mastodoR have been dis
covered on farm near Montpelier, Indiana,
where similar discoveries had been previous
ly made.
Mayor Hewitt has ordered the prosecution
OF all hotel keepers IN New York who have
not com iiesi vs. % the 6re-escape law passed
by the legislature at Albany last winter.
Ex-Congressman Gibson, of West Virgin
in, was fined $50 and sent to Jail at Hunting
ton, in that state, by Judge McGinnis, for
. contempt O4 court N4DHA4 anu l4EAA44AAA4h
have been at enmity for years and the for
mer, while trying case before the judge,
intimated that he was open to bribery.
Cardinal Gibbons has promised to make
closing prayer and pronounce the bene-
dlcuon at the approaching constitutional
celebration in Philadelphia.
Matt w. Pinkerton, the detective, has
brought an action for libel against William
A. PinkertOn, chief of the famous agency,
laying his damages at $4,000.
Alex McCue, solicitor of the treasury, has
been appointed commissioner Of fish and
fisheries, to succeed the late Professor
Baird.
The health authorities Of Rome deny that
cholera has appeared IN that city.
The world has sustained a heavy loss by
the death in Austria of Nikel Meyer, said to
have been the largest man on earth.
The Chicago Base Ball club appears to be
in a badly demOralizsd condition, and unless
harmony is quickly restored, its chances Of
winning the pennant are very slight. The
players, with one or two exceptions, are IN
open revolt against Arson, whose action in
filming Pfeffer for misplays recently is
bitterly denounced. Pfetfer and some of
the others insist that "Anson must CO."
The treasury department is making siren
uOus efforts to break up the practice of
issuing limitations of the national currency
to winch many ''commerciaI' colleges and
Q
currency has been extensively used by
sharpers to sWlndle ignorant people, and its
manufacture Is IN express violation of law.
The chief Of the secret service on Saturday
seized and destroyed "a large quantity of the
stuff issued by Washington business col
lege."
Only late-planted corn was much benefited
by the recent rains The crop in Illinois viii
not reach 80 per cent. of an average.
Pastures are doing we'll Throughout the west,
I am Ea for fol -
apple crop of Illinois will not exceed one
1 third of an average. Light frOsts have
occurred IN some of the central counties,
but no damage to vegetation Is reported
The Iron Mountain Railroad company has
obtained a restraining order to prevent A. H.
johnson, president Of the Arkansas Midland,
from taking possession OF portion OF It's
roadbed, claimed by him under judgment
recently rendered.
Sir Arthur Blaclzwood, who has been in
speeding the Canadian Pacific railroad as a
represents tive of the British government,
reports that the road is poorly built and that
the trains make very slow time.
General Manager Van Horne, of the Cana
dian Pacific railway asserts that the Red
River Valley railway project is in the inter
est of the movement for the annexation Of
Manitoba to the United States. The grading
of the new line has been completed.
The United States court at San Francisco
| has blocked the Pacific railway investigation
by refusing to issue an order upon Senator
Stanford to answer questions or to direct
| the officers of the railroad companies to pro
| duce their books. The decision was rendered
| by Justice Field
The politicians of Idaho are moving for
an enlargement of its boundaries, preiimi-
nary TO am application for admission as d
/ state. The scheme for the annexation Of
/ Idaho to Nevada has been abandoned.
Archbishop Walsh is trying to bring about
| a formidable conference between COM
| mlttees representing the Irish landlords and
I their tenants. The prelate's intentions are
/ excellent, but his plan lis hardly feasible
/ In the present temper of the landlords and
/ tenants a conference between them would
/ be tru1tless, H. indeed, 1t did not aggraVate
| their differences. The Irish land question
will have to be settled by methods more he
rOic.
Mendoza, Illinois has a gas well only
/ ninety feet deep, with a pressure of twenty
four pounds to the inch.
] George S, Hall, q farmer of NIacomb coun-
| ty, Michigan, was burned to death in a
livery stable fire at Detroit, Michigan.
A special session of the Spanish cortes is
likely to be held in October, to take action
concerning the disturbances in Cuba.
]. A. Jones. charged with embezzlement
at Lawrenceviue, Illinois, is to be brought
back on extraditlon papers from FredOnia,
Kansas.
Near LOgauspOrt, Indiana, Henry Fetch
I er was blown to pieces by an explosion OF
dynamite, with which he was blasting
| stumps.
The business men of Fort Wayne intend
to get a supply of natural gas by pipeline
from Blaclford county, Indiana. The cost
viii be 100000.
/ Most of the millers in Minneapolis havJ
been obliged to put their steam engines al
work. the supply OF water Ia the MlssiSsIDU
| beng insufficient
/ At Wyoming, Illinois, Miss Rose Coffey
of Elgin, a school teacher, became insane
jumped from a culvert, and fractured hel
skull. 1t is expected she viii die.
/ Two employees of a restaurant in Findley
Ohio, quarreled, and Sam Pence, one of tht
disputants, killed Harry Carlton, the other
with a fOur-pOund weight
me TaLlsaz war.
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